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  • From: Lucy Wilson <lucy.wilson AT gmail.com>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ocba] OCBA Pollinator Garden
  • Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:12:38 -0500

Hi all,

 

We are looking for volunteers for the OCBA pollinator garden. Please respond to me (lucy.wilson AT gmail.com) or sign up here if you are interested. We are looking for volunteers for the months of March (starting ASAP) through October.

 

The OCBA maintains a pollinator garden at the Alexander Dickson House/Orange County Visitors Center on East King Street in Hillsborough. It's a lovely garden, installed and dedicated in the spring of 2011. See

more here: http://theocba.org/events/pollinator-garden-dedication/

 

To keep up with regular garden maintenance, volunteers take on a month during which s/he spends approximately an hour at the garden. Tasks include weeding and deadheading, and later in the summer, staking things up and then cutting them back. Volunteers also report back on any other garden needs, such as replacing struggling or dead plants, water or mulch needed, etc.

 

We are setting up the same system again this year, preferably with two volunteers per month. The two can either work together or at different times. If regularly maintained, a visit to weed, etc. should take approximately one hour. This can be done at any time within the month, to fit the volunteer's schedule.

 

Suggested items to bring: garden gloves, drinking water, sun hat; hand rake/claw or other cultivation tool of choice; clippers for dead-heading and cutting back; and a bag to collect weeded material in (*Please do not leave weeds in the yard of the Dickson House.)

 

Nearly all of the plants have labels, and are all fully established after 6 years, so even if you aren't familiar with what is where in the garden, you'll have no problems weeding.

 

Please sign up using this Google spreadsheet, or by replying to me (lucy.wilson AT gmail.com).  


Thank you!


Lucy

 

Full link to sign up spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1reb0A1zyxkTMv0S7ceHYJaQ4ygN5668eOxIEu95aJe4/edit?usp=sharing



  • [ocba] OCBA Pollinator Garden, Lucy Wilson, 03/10/2017

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